RE: SteemReports - The Anatomy of Steem and Steemit

[andybets]

There are 2 problems I can imagine with that:

1. I don't think it's currently possible to tell which RPCs relayed each transaction, and adding an extra signature to all transactions would create a lot of extra data.
2. Under this proposal, abusive parties could submit extra transactions though their RPC to artificially inflate their share of the RPC rewards.

Comments

[sorin.cristescu]

1. would indeed mean a serious upgrade - but this would anyway be major upgrade. I would be surprised though if there wasn't something already because otherwise 2. would already be possible today if the RPC were "transparent" for the blockchain. Not for rewards but a malicious RPC node could try to play all sorts of mischief if the witnesses were not able to tell what RPC node was responsible for what interaction ...
2. Not sure, see above. Anyway it would have to be well discussed and analyzed, every detail will matter in the implementation. I think the risk of the status quo (no rewards for running an RPC) is bigger than the risk of a botched implementation of rewards for RPC